pri pilot
intervention

Capacity building for Gramapanchyat to undertake NRM - GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Goal

To empower rural communities, particularly the socially and economically marginalized, through PRIs.

Purpose of Pilot Intervention

To develop modalities for empowering Gram Panchayats to take up sustainable NRM in a Pilot Watershed and environs, to support the livelihoods of the socially and economically marginalized members of the community.

Objectives

• To capacitate all members of the Gram Sabha in three villages and 13 hamlets in one Gram Panchayat to plan and manage natural resources on an equitable and sustainable basis.
• To promote women as effective community leaders who are actively involved in decision making, by enhancing their capacities and skills.
• To support and facilitate the Gram Panchayat to influence public policies in favour of locally driven Natural Resource Management.
• To develop, in the pilot area, a pool of human resources and institutional capacities for future PRI-based Integrated Natural Resource Management activities in semi-arid areas of Northern Karnataka.
• To create exchange platforms common meetings, workshops and seminars related to decentralization and natural resource management.